SECTION MEETING REPORT

Meeting Date:

October 12, 1999

Attendance:

36

Location:

WWJ-TV (CBS) Transmitter

Oak Park, Michigan

Subject:

Digital STL and ENG for DTV

Speaker:

Andrew Larsen

Adaptive Broadband, Inc.

Andrew Larsen from Adaptive Broadband was the speaker at the October meeting of the Detroit Section. Mr. Larsen updated the 36 members and guests on the latest technology for DTV Studio-to-Transmitter Links as well as giving a report on advances in digital ENG transmission using digital COFDM technology. The presentation included a description of the MRC TwinStream systems capable of carrying both DTV and NTSC on the same channel. A tape was shown that displayed a split screen demonstration of the advantages of COFDM modulation in mobile and aerial ENG applications.

Mr. Larsen is shown in the photo at left explaining the operation of the TwinStream system to one of the Detroit Section members.

The meeting was hosted by WWJ-TV at their new transmitter building in Oak Park. Following the meeting WWJ-TV staff gave tours of the facility that included a close up view of the new tower and their impressive NTSC and DTV transmitter installation. In the photo, WWJ engineer and SMPTE manager Peter Sockett (in blue shirt, upper right) explains the control systems of the new transmitter plant to SMPTE members and guests.

Submitted by:

Helge Blucher, WTVS
Secretary/Treasurer, SMPTE Detroit Section